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Comment Re:It's the same guy in charge both companies (Score 1) 41

Depends on the jurisdiction but 'successor company liability' is the term of art.

Committing fraud on the creditors is one way to get liability. One can imagine users here as creditors since the prior company was on the hook for services purchased.

Ask a judge in the jurisdiction but it quacks like fraud in many jurisdictions.

Comment Re:The world is over-populated by stupid people (Score 3) 59

Texas disagrees.

See subject. :-) Slamming TX representative, more than its citizens as apparently 78% of Texas voters think abortion should be allowed in some form, UT poll shows - meaning their representatives pass these things against citizens' wishes. On the other hand, the people keep voting for them, probably for other reasons, so that's on them.

But, more seriously, ...

And given their bounty program, it's not just the women who have to worry. Healthcare providers will be at risk.

Agreed.

Comment Re: Enterprise (Score 1) 177

Many people seem to feel the same way, but I still don't understand why. The only part of it that really irritates me is how few programs allow you to pin the size of the subwindow to the main window so that they remain related, but I suppose that could be enough.

What's funny about it is that it actually came from providing a superior alternative to other desktop operating systems, most of which did the same thing originally. e.g. on the early MacOS, you had only fullscreen applications with subwindows, and only Desk Accessories could float over them. On AmigaOS, each application had its own "screen" which could be raised or lowered, and you could pull them up or down the screen, so you could show the top of one screen over the bottom of another. Each AmigaOS screen could have its own palette, which was special; MacOS couldn't do that. Windows' MDI couldn't do it either, but you could at least treat those applications the same way you would treat any other window. But once we got 24 bit color, all that stuff was outdated, and everybody else was letting you just mix windows freely.

Comment Re:Time to end the Captcha. (Score 1) 21

They have stopped working, now they just annoy a human.

I thought their (actual) use was to train AIs. If AIs can solve them, it's just another job they've taken away from us humans.

Soon there will be laws limiting the use of AIs over people, then corporate lobbyists clamoring for more AIs, then Congress will create an H-AI Visa program so companies can use them, as well as cheaper, foreign ones, instead of people and domestic AIs, ... #SatiricButProbablyTrue

Comment Re: Enterprise (Score 1) 177

"What originally turned me off from Windows, and I don't know that it is still like this, is that a "child" window could only appear within its "parent" window, rather than anywhere on the screen."

That has never been a requirement for Windows programs. It's called MDI and some applications use it and some don't. Some applications open multiple MDI windows, usually one per document, while others don't use it at all.

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